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Yves Klein screenprint "Portrait D'arman" 1965. Bruno Piattelli collection.
In February 1962. Yves had the idea of creating a series of portraits of his artist friends, based on life-size plaster effigies, with a view to a work that had not yet found its form. These are the casts of the naked models, cut irregularly at the height of the thighs, with the bust facing forward, the head slightly turned to the side, particularly in the case of Arman, the arms along the body and the fists clenched as in certain archaic Greek sculptures. in bronze, covered with blue pigment and mounted on a plywood panel covered with gold leaf. Yves started with the three friends who formed his Nice gang.
Yves Klein screenprint "Portrait D'arman" 1965. Bruno Piattelli collection.
In February 1962. Yves had the idea of creating a series of portraits of his artist friends, based on life-size plaster effigies, with a view to a work that had not yet found its form. These are the casts of the naked models, cut irregularly at the height of the thighs, with the bust facing forward, the head slightly turned to the side, particularly in the case of Arman, the arms along the body and the fists clenched as in certain archaic Greek sculptures. in bronze, covered with blue pigment and mounted on a plywood panel covered with gold leaf. Yves started with the three friends who formed his Nice gang.
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